Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] ANNOUNCE: Rosegarden-4 v0.1.5 released
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_op.net)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 04:10:35 EEST
>On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 13:55, Paul Davis wrote:
>> >> Is this possible to build it without KDE requirement
>> >
>> >While our user interface is KDE/Qt, the base/ (core library) is just
>> >plain C++/STL.
>>
>> IMHO, Qt is not a problem. KDE is. Same goes for GTK/GNOME. As I've
>> said before, I don't think people writing audio/midi/music
>> applications should be using "desktop environments".
>
>Their time is much better spent reimplementing everything a desktop
>environment gives in non-standard ways that no-one other than themselves
and what precisely is it that a "desktop environment gives" that
needs reimplementing in an audio/MIDI/music/sound application?
cut-n-paste? thats toolkit-level. configuration files? i'd prefer a
standalone XML library. integration into the "start" menu?
the idea that i need GNOME around for a guitar tuning program, and
that it benefits from integration with GNOME, is so beyond my capacity
to understand that i'm lost for words (for once, and not for long :)
--p
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